Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by Andre Aciman
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Book Reviews of Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Book Review: An extraordinary novel
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book based on all the positive reviews found here and elsewhere on the Web, and I'm glad I did.
It is rare to read something that seems as if the author wrote it just for you. But that's exactly how I feel about "Call Me by Your Name." The writing is exceptionally beautiful and I found myself re-reading pages and pages of text just to capture and absorb all of Aciman's wisdom and insights.
I wish there was something new I could say about the book, but so much has been written in other reviews that my accolades would be duplicative. So I'll just say that this book affected me deeply.
The author has conjured one of the finest novels ever written about love, the choices we make, and how emotions change and endure over time.
Book Review: Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
Summary: 4 Stars
Aciman does a wonderful job in this novel of reconstructing young love in all its brilliant absurdity. The narrator, reflecting on his teenage self from the safety of middle age, slowly (a bit too slowly for my taste) builds the story of his obsession with Olivier, 24 to his 17. It's a realistic description, but it's hard for first love--at least in the unrequited stage--to avoid feeling melodramatic. (Melodrama, after all, is what teenagers are all about.) When the lovers finally come together midway through the book, the text comes alive, with passages of poetic expression that bring tears to the eye. One extended sequence, at a book party in Rome, offers one of the best descriptions I've ever read of how one can fall in love with literature. It's the human romance, however, that remains prominent, and Aciman is a master at showing how first love can blind one to reality: the narrator believes that Olivier is his soul mate, that they are one during their time together--and insofar as he believes that feeling will last, the story is a tragedy as well as a romance, as neither character will ever know this intensity of love again. (And the reader will never eat a peach so innocently again, but that's another story....)ChemistryBook Review: spellbinding
Summary: 5 Stars
what a wonderful, unforgettable book. I read great reviews about it and was intrigued from the minute I found out that straight publications rave about a gay romance. So when I spent last weekend in the italian sun I knew I had the right literature to read. I didn't expect it to be so great. The book pulls you in. little by little. it takes some while to get into it. and then you are lost in its prose, its beauty and unforgettable heartbreak. thank you Mr Aciman. The best book by far which I have read in years. It is about big themes and left me with tears in my eyes. As I gay man I don't like the typical paint-by-numbers gay novels. this novel was so different and so profound. true love is a very rare things. and it must be appreciated or else it is gone in a moment. call me by your name is a masterpiece which I will always carry in my heart.Book Review: Okay, but hard to read.
Summary: 3 Stars
I gave this book 2 tries to get into it. The first time I gave up because it was too hard to understand. Second time I got up to about halfway, then quit because it seemed to be the same thing over and over again. Kinda confusing too, but maybe it's because I'm not that well read. Too many big words that I don't understand tend to differ my interest. Partly my fault, and maybe I expected too much. Good luck to those who can grasp this.Book Review: Enchanted Moment In Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Call Me By Your Name is a very endearing tale of innocence and love - a little strange at times with what the two main characters do in examining each others secretions/by-products - but on the whole a sort of memoir that will leave you dumbfounded with awe as to how powerful and defining of a force love can be to the human psyche, to a person's life.